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Congress could simply make a corporate tax scale that was proportional to what percentage of your work was done in the U.S. For instance if all your work and engineering was done in the U.S., your tax rate would be 5%. If you were a large mutlinational, you're tax rate would remain at the current 35%. Congress doesn't have the guts to do this either because they are a bunch of elitist themselves, and they don't care about the middle class. The middle class itself would have to have to rise up and declare war against our own government, and greedy corporate and business leaders. The government and corporate executives have the U.S. military on their side. It doesn't look good for the U.S. middle class. The forces aligned against it are great.

Guys, the federal government can't tax a co that's not based out of the US.

You need corporations to lobby gov't for tariffs. Most corporations won't do that because it'll cut their margins if they're already based in China. The trick would have been to do this before the jobs left. Like the tire industry did. Chinese tires are now priced the same as US made and thus they've lost their advantage.
I think your market is so big, the minute tariffs come into effect say on TVs or blenders Those companies producing will close up shop and move to Vietnam or Malaysia or back to Mexico. no tariffs allowed from Mexico due to NAFTA!

Originally Posted by exreo

Congress could simply make a corporate tax scale that was proportional to what percentage of your work was done in the U.S. For instance if all your work and engineering was done in the U.S., your tax rate would be 5%. If you were a large mutlinational, you're tax rate would remain at the current 35%. Congress doesn't have the guts to do this either because they are a bunch of elitist themselves, and they don't care about the middle class. The middle class itself would have to have to rise up and declare war against our own government, and greedy corporate and business leaders. The government and corporate executives have the U.S. military on their side. It doesn't look good for the U.S. middle class. The forces aligned against it are great.

Both these would be seen as trade barriers in the eye's of GATT,

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